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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"Free trade"”.
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Free trade and economic growth of Egypt
Free trade relations have become an important issue in both trade and development literature since the 1950s. From this period, 1950-1959, until the end of the 1960s, the economy of Egypt was protected as a result of the adoption of import substitution policies and excessive government intervention …
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Free trade refugees: from Chiapas to the prairie
… face in the public world can emerge. Free Trade Refugees: from Chiapas to the Prairie affords this experience and is an underlying aspiration of this study: to provide that experience. If positive, negative, and complicated stereotypes, framed as they are by the truths of the period, …
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International free trade and biodiversity conservation : towards 'sustainable trade'
… addressing biodiversity and international trade therein. Some international and domestic legal instruments promote free trade (including free trade of biodiversity resources), while environmental legal instruments promote the conservation of biodiversity and strictly controlled …
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Namibia and SADC free trade area : maximising export opportunities?
… of co-operation. In the areas of economic and trade liberalization, a Protocol on Trade entered into force in 2000. The purpose of the Protocol is to establish a free trade area (FTA). The SADC FTA was formally launched in August 2008, when twelve SADC Member States phased out their tariffs …
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Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade
<p>To this day, mainstream economists favor free trade policies as the best way to generate economic development. They do so at the expense of their unjustified romanticization of reductionist classical trade theories. This thesis seeks to comprehend the constraints of traditional trade theories …
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A Discussion On The African Continental Free Trade Area And Competition
… the formation of the African Continental Free Trade Area by the African Union members; whose main objective is to boost intra African trade and create a single continental market for goods and services. The African Continental Free Trade Area is expected to enhance competitiveness at both …
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The United States, Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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Paradigms in Caribbean trade diplomacy: negotiating the CARIFORUM–EC Free Trade Agreement
… (SIDS) on the trail of the emerging global trade regime because, notwithstanding the levels of economic disparity between the two sides, the Caribbean accepted the unequal nature of the partnership in a pragmatic and constructive sense. The region’s negotiators skilfully used the asymmetry …
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Towards regionalism through the Asean-China free trade area: prospects and challenges
… and challenges facing ACFTA (Asean-China free trade area). It examined what ought to be done by the ASEAN member nations to match China's competitive ability having recently joined the World Trade Organization. The study also examined the compatibility of the ACFTA with the World Trade …
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Trade and investment effects of free trade agreements: The case of Vietnam
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. The relatively recent emergence of deep and comprehensive RTAs is expected to have substantial impacts on members, especially developing countries. For a particular country, the impacts of RTAs on trade …
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The U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement - A historical placement of the FTA
There is a pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States (U.S.) and Colombia in U.S. Congress. The FTA aims to promote regional economic prosperity. This FTA should be redone as it will not achieve either of these goals. The FTA will cause an increase in drug production, violence, …
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Why Renegotiation?: Renewal of the South Korea-Chile Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
… explores the motivations behind the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) renegotiation between Chile and South Korea. Existing studies have examined the reasons and outcomes of creating the initial Chile-South Korea FTA, but they have not focused on renegotiations between the two countries. A …
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An EU-South African free trade agreement : how will South Africa benefit?
… question: Will South Africa benefit from a free trade agreement with the EU? It will not attempt thorough empirical analysis of this question. Instead, it will offer theoretical insight to certain of the policy questions raised about the proposed EU-South Africa FTA. The relevant body of …
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The central american free trade agreement: Effects on labor in the maguila sector
<p>The rapid expansion of free trade has challenged workers rights in Central America. Unions are continuously deprived of customary support and resources to enforce their rights, especially in the maquiladoras. The expansion of maquila production has often been accompanied by an informal agreement …
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Economic Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement Between the European Union and Colombia
… on the economic and social effects of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in 2012 by the European Union (EU) and Colombia. The EU - Colombia FTA is a multilateral and intra-regional trade agreement, where the developed region is represented by the EU-28 countries, and the developing …
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Laboring for peace and development: evaluating the United States-Jordan free trade agreement’s effects
<p>This thesis examines the United States-Jordan Free Trade Agreement in the context of American foreign and trade policy in the aftermath of the Cold War. The agreement, ratified in 2001, was the first signed by the United States which includes labor and environmental protections in the main text …
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Free Trade and Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Culture of Early American Capitalism
… Boston from its foundations in the Atlantic fur trade in the 1740s to the crises of succession in the early 1840s. The allied Perkins firms and families established one of the most successful American trading networks of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and as such it provides …
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Free Trade Areas and the Construction of an Efficient Mechanism to Satisfy Industrialization Targets
… exporters in the determination of preferential trade treatment. The predictions of the model are tested using data on preferential trade between the United States and Latin American countries. The results suggest that Latin American exporters and US importers' lobbying efforts have a …
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